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∇ 2016 ∇ T4 –W6 ∇ 17.11.16 ∇ Principal: Timothy Allen

Yanco Public School Newsletter

“The Ibis”

Main Avenue, Yanco NSW 2703

Phone: (02) 6955 7162

Fax: (02) 6955 7477

Email: yanco-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web: www.yanco-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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In this edition

Principal’s News Light Up Leeton Page 2 Year 5 & 6 Excursion Page 2 Leeton High School Orientation Day Primary Assembly Page 2 Merit Awards Page 2 School Reports Page 2 School Uniform Page 2 Sports Report Yanco PS Athletics Carnival Page 2 Sporting Schools Page 2 Bike Day Page 2 School Swimming Page 2 P & C News Page 2 Student Work Page 3 Healthy Living Tips Page 4 Term 4 Calendar Page 4 Primary Assembly photos Page 5 Vox Pops Page 6/7 Little Leaners photos Page 8 Athletics Carnival photos Page 9/10 Our Sponsors & Community Calendar Page 11

Feature Photo

The school held Our Athletics Carnival last Thursday.

Yanco Public School Principal: Timothy Allen Phone: (02) 6955 7162 Fax: (02) 6955 7477 Email: yanco-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.yanco-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Towards a Better World

Yanco Public School Main Avenue

Yanco NSW 2703

Upcoming Events Term 4, Week 6

Friday, 18TH Nov Bike Day

Term 4, Week 7

Tuesday, 22nd Nov Final Sporting Schools session

Wednesday, 23rd Nov Borambola Excursion – Yrs 5/6

Thursday, 24th Nov Borambola Excursion – Yrs 5/6 Student Banking Canteen-Students

Friday, 25th Nov Borambola Excursion – Yrs 5/6

Week 6 P.B. Award – Mia McCoustra

Week 5 P.B. Award – Luke Jackson

Save the Date Yanco Lions Club Ham Raffle

6 pm - Saturday, 3rd December Waring Park, Yanco

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Principal’s News Welcome back to Week 6 of Term 4! Last year the school made a submission to Roads and Maritime Services to have Main Avenue declared a 40 kph school zone, with additional flashing lights to be installed. In fantastic news the school has been successful in our submission for additional flashing lights, with these being installed in Main Avenue last week, which work in addition to the flashing lights in Cudgel Street to protect our students. Please be aware that the local Highway Patrol is now actively patrolling the new school traffic zone. Light Up Leeton Light Up Leeton will take place on Sunday, 4 December at Mountford Park, Leeton. The school will once again perform at the annual concert. To assist Miss Grigg with organisation and rehearsals it would be appreciated if you could advise the school if your child will be, or will not be, participating in the concert by returning the note sent home yesterday. Year 5-6 Excursion Year 5-6 will travel to Borambola Sport and Recreation Camp for their 3 day excursion next week. Borambola will provide students with the ultimate learning challenge with programs providing active learning through fun and rewarding personal challenges and help students realise their potential in decision-making, problem-solving, resilience, team building and leadership. Please ensure all permission notes and the full cost of the excursion is sent to the school by next Tuesday, 22 November 2016. Leeton High School Orientation Day Parents of students in Year 6 who will be attending Leeton High School in Year 7 2017 are advised that the Leeton High School Year 7 Orientation Day will be held on Tuesday, 29 November 2016. Any parents who have yet to return their Year 7 enrolment forms are requested to do so immediately. A Parent Information Evening will also be held on the same date. Primary Assembly Parents and all community members are invited to attend the last Primary Assembly for 2016, which will be held on Thursday, 1 December 2016, commencing at 10.30 am under the COLA. During the assembly students will be presented with Merit Awards. Please stay for morning tea after the assembly. Merit Awards All students eligible for a Merit Award at the Week 8 Primary Assembly are asked to have awards handed to the front office by Tuesday, 29 November 2016 in order for awards to be published for the assembly. This will also be the last opportunity for students to obtain a Home Reading Award, so all students are encouraged to hand their Home Reading Diaries to Mr Allen to ensure you receive an award if eligible. School Reports Staff have commenced preparing the Semester Two student reports. These will be sent home with students on Wednesday, 14 December 2016.

School Uniform The wearing of school uniform builds school pride and a sense of belonging in students. All items of clothing in the school uniform are available from the school office, which is open Monday,

Tuesday and Thursday. If any parents or carers are having difficulty purchasing items of school clothing, please contact the office

Sports Report Athletics Carnival I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the parents and members of the school community who visited the school last Thursday to help or participate in our Athletics Carnival. It was another fantastic school event, which was highlighted by the student’s participation and sportsmanship on the day. Sporting Schools The last session of our Term 4 Sporting Schools program ‘Game On’ with Brumbies Rugby Union Development Officer Seth Stoltenburg will take place next Tuesday, 22 November 2016. Yesterday Mr David Bruce from Orima Research visited the school as part of a research project, evaluating the program on behalf of the Federal Government, who have spent 100 million dollars to improve children’s access to community sporting organisations. Thank you to staff and parents who agreed to be interviewed by David for this process. Bike Day Bike Day will take place tomorrow, Friday, 18 November 2016. The regular route through the Murrumbidgee Forest has been changed due to the flood and students in Years 3-6 will now ride their bikes out Research Road and back, departing from the rear entrance of the school in Progress Street. Parent helpers will be needed to assist by riding with the students. School Swimming K-6 School Swimming will again take place this year. At this stage it is planned for the program to run the same as last year, with Miss Laura Brindley, an AUSTSWIM accredited instructor, assisting with the program. The intensive swimming program will take place from Monday 28 November 2016 to Friday 9 December 2016, from approximately 11.30 am to 12.30 pm each day. Parents and volunteers will be required to assist with the running of the program again this year. The permission note for this year’s program is attached to this week’s newsletter. Please assist with the organisation for this program by returning the note as quickly as possible.

P and C News Meeting Monthly meetings of the Yanco Public School P & C are now held on the second Thursday of every month. Meetings are attended by the school principal, Mr Timothy Allen, and are a major opportunity for consultation with the school community. The last meeting scheduled for the year was set to take place in the library on Thursday, 8 December 2016, commencing at 3.30 pm. Due to a clash with the Year 6 Farewell, a new date will be advised Canteen As most parents and carers should be aware, the school canteen will now operate every Thursday, with a fixed menu ‘meal deal’ being offered each week. The canteen will be operated on alternating weeks by P & C parent volunteers and the Year 6 Student Leadership Team

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Nicole can…. • Spell sight words and some topic words correctly • Read her independent writing to the teacher

Nicole is learning to… • Break her writing into sentences • Use capital letters and full stops to start and end a sentence

In Year 3-6 we had to research a Prime Minister of Australia and write a

speech. I wrote about Robert Hawke. His name was Robert but everyone

called him Bob.

Trevor

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TERM 4 2016 CALENDAR MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

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November 14 Life Education Van visit

November 15 Sporting Schools Rugby Union Last Scripture lesson

November 16 Kinder 2017 ORIENTATION Healthy Lunhbox session 2 pm.

November 17 Student Banking Canteen-S Cuteri

November 18 BIKE DAY

7 November 21 November 22

Sporting Schools Rugby Union

November 23

November 24 Student Banking Canteen-Students

November 25

8 November 28 November 29

Leeton HS Orientation Day

November 30 Proud & Deadly Awards

December 1 Student Banking Canteen PRIMARY ASSEMBLY

December 2

9 December 5 December 6

Scripture Christmas Assembly Christmas Concert

December 7 December 8 Student Banking Canteen Yr 6 Farewell

December 9

10 December 12 December 13

Presentation Night

December 14 December 15 Student Banking

December 16 Swimming at YAHS LAST DAY FOR STUDENTS

BORAMBOLA EXCURSION – YRS 5 & 6

Primary Assembly Schedule Term 4

Thursday, 1 December All parents, carers and community members are invited and encouraged to attend. The assembly will

commence at 10.30 am and will be followed by a community morning tea.

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K/1/2 Merit Awards were presented to; Jess Annetts, Tristan Capstick, Mia McCoustra, Luke Jackson, Dakoda Cross & Riley Jackson

3/6 Merit Awards were presented to; Grace Dolan, Georgie Dunn, Jack Cross, Johnathon Davidson,

Jed Driscoll, Rhiannon Jagers, Kai Hammond

Silver Awards were presented to; Cameron Miners & Stephania Cuteri

Bronze Awards were presented to; Gabriel Quodling & Chase Annetts

Home Reading Awards were presented to; 100 nights –Luke Burrows & Luke Jackson 125 nights- Ally Bourke & Tristan Capstick 150 nights-Stephania Cuteri, Gabriel Quodling, Tristan Capstick, Mia McCoustra, 175 nights- Stephania Cuteri, Gabriel Quodling, Mia McCoustra, Rhiannon Jagers, Kyla McCoustra 200 nights- Stephania Cuteri, Mia McCoustra, Rhiannon Jagers, Kyla McCoustra, Jayden McCoustra 225 nights- Mia McCoustra, Kyla McCoustra, Jayden McCoustra 250 nights- Kyla McCoustra & Jayden McCoustra

Students were presented with Premiers Sports Challenge certificates (above) and Mathletics Awards (right)

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Final 2016 Little Learners session & picnic

Athletics Carnival

Athletics Carnival

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Yanco Village Markets Yanco Community Hall Sunday, 27th November

Powerhouse Museum

Open Day Sunday, 27th November

Yanco Lions Club Meeting Yanco All-Servicemen’s Club

2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month @ 7pm

BOB’S RE-USE CENTRE

Leeton Landfill & Recycling Centre

Thursday to Sunday 9am to 5pm

Enquiries: 0416 109 676

YANCO ALL-SERVICEMEN’S CLUB

P.O. Box 23,

Yanco

Ph: 02 6955 7106 Fax: 02 6955 7290

LEETON OUT OF SCHOOL CARE

Afterschool and Holiday Care for children K - 6 Ring Alison Wallace, Ph: 6953 5788

YANCO LIONS CLUB

“We serve”

P.O. Box 750, Leeton Yanco Road, Leeton

Phone: 6953 2000

LEETON SCHOOL DENTAL CLINIC

All children aged 0-18 years who live

in NSW and hold a medicare card are eligible for FREE dental care at

the Leeton Clinic For an appointment call

1800 450 046